Wednesday, April 30, 2014

This weekly series
will feature ads that I consider to be the very best (in one way or
another). Please do not hesitate to tell
me about your favorite ads, and if you have some (good) taste, I just might add
yours to the list.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is
to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most
interesting—in one way or another. Just
to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as a
recommendation, and I have included sites that are rather disturbing to
me. The link below each image is to the
site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was
taken when applicable. Please, go see
for yourself. Oh, and as of August 10,
2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word
verification engaged.

Monday, April 28, 2014

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a
review of (or commentary about) websites, movies, documentaries, television
shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be
generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change, however. In fact, I would be most derelict in my
duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something
positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

It
is our (Americans) fault that someone like [Vladimir Putin] could come to power
in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
For we could have rushed to the aid of the citizens of the former
communist countries, but we wanted them to lie in the bed they had made for
awhile.

So,
instead of fostering feelings of eternal gratitude with people, who had watched
their means for existence disintegrate right before their very eyes, we
reinforced the notion of us really being their enemies. This made it easy for someone like Putin to
come to power. For he has not been shy
about wanting to rebuild the Soviet Union, and life was not all that bad for many
in the area during that era—certainly not as bad as it has been since.

Yes,
some of the blame must be layed at the feet of the British, French and the rest
of the free world. For they sure didn’t
do much, but in all fairness, our leaders were probably discouraging them from
doing what they could. No, I do not have
any evidence. It sure makes sense to me,
though.

The
West Germans did more than anyone else to help their people, who had been
trapped on the eastern side of the [Iron Curtain]. Hence, there is now a truly united Germany,
which is as strong as a country as it ever has been—both economically and
politically.

Alas,
I see the Russian encroachment into Ukraine as being a no-win situation. For unless our Heavenly Father does some
serious changing of hearts and minds, it will only be by military force that
Putin will be stopped, and I do not see him refusing to go nuclear when he
starts losing a conventional war with the west.

In
the end, the west would not lose even a nuclear war, but the survivors would be
hard-pressed to claim victory. May our
Heavenly Father have mercy upon us all.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Back during my childhood, our parents would often load
up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive
around where we lived. Even though we
were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them, and this is
why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a weekly series
revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again. The link below the image is to the site
itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

No, it is not that I am in the midst of experiencing a
second or third childhood. For it is
arguable that I have never really grown up because of my march toward maturity
being interrupted by some episodes of arrested development along the way. So, instead of thinking that this series is
meant as a wistful look back upon a simpler time, think of it as being a rather
simplistic mind remaining in a moment for an extended period of time. In any event, I hope you find it enjoyable.

Friday, April 25, 2014

The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is
to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most
interesting—in one way or another. Just
to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as a
recommendation, and I have included sites that are rather disturbing to
me. The link below each image is to the
site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was
taken when applicable. Please, go see
for yourself. Oh, and as of August 10,
2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word
verification engaged.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

This weekly series
will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby
little hands on (so to speak). Now, each
one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit
only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered. For I just cannot bring myself to rate some
higher than others. So, this will not be
a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t
matter. Besides, with no countdown, this
could go on forever and ever! Oh, and
despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can
be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make. I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

This weekly series
will feature ads that I consider to be the very best (in one way or
another). Please do not hesitate to tell
me about your favorite ads, and if you have some (good) taste, I just might add
yours to the list.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is
to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most
interesting—in one way or another. Just
to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as a
recommendation, and I have included sites that are rather disturbing to
me. The link below each image is to the
site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was
taken when applicable. Please, go see
for yourself. Oh, and as of August 10,
2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word
verification engaged.

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TMI?

The purpose of this site has changed somewhat. For it was originally meant to help clear-up much of the confusion that now exists concerning our Heavenly Father and the righteousness of all of His most awesome ways, especially in regards to the very close and personal relationship that we can have with Him in this day and age. It still is, but in a much more subtle way. Now, if any of this has you curious, please visit FishHawk Droppings, which is where all of the books that I have been given to publish by our Heavenly Father (so far) have been placed in the order that they are meant to be read. By the way, the definition of a crackerhead is someone, who crumbles under pressure, regardless of whether real or imagined.